Why doesn't the current time from just running biff display in my current locale?

[BurntSushi]

Originally posted by @benwilber at BurntSushi/ripgrep#3047

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Great tool!

$ biff  --version
Biff 0.1.0

I'm on macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 (24E263). The output from /bin/date shows like this:

$ date
Mon May 12 15:47:28 EDT 2025

Biff shows like:

$ biff
2025 M05 12, Mon 15:48:15

I expected from the README

That it would show like

$ biff
Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:02:04 AM EDT

Is it expected to show M05 12 instead of the Month? (also with no timezone)

EDIT: Also I think your issue template for Biff might need to be updated! It directed me to create a discussion topic here. Or maybe that's just how you want it to be :-)

[BurntSushi]

Does the section on locale support in the guide answer your question?

[benwilber]

Yes that answered it! Thank you!

Need to set BIFF_LOCALE=en-US, and also get the release binary. Cargo version doesn't have locale support by default.

[BurntSushi]

Yeah the locale feature is mentioned there. It isn't enabled by default because it introduces a ton of extra code, binary size and extra compilation time.